The Bible Study Podcast, episode 130.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Luke with Luke, Chapter 18.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Chapter 18 begins this way. The parable of the persistent widow. Then Jesus told his disciples a

parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said, in a certain town

there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him

with the plea, grant me justice against my adversary. For some time he refused, but finally

he said to himself, even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow

keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice,

so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming. And the Lord said, listen to what the

unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him

day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

I tell you, he will see that they get justice and quickly. However, when the son of man comes,

will he find faith on the earth? Now Luke is telling us a story here exactly how I tried to

teach my kids not to tell a joke, which is with the punchline first.

He's very clear that the reason why Jesus told them this parable was to teach them that they

should pray and not give up. So we don't have to guess what Jesus was trying to get at with this.

And so he tells the story of this unjust judge, and an

unjust judge would be a terrible thing. Remember that the prophets in the Old Testament are filled

with calls for justice, and especially justice for those who have little power, like the widows and the

orphans. And so this is a terrible thing.

And so he's saying, if even this terrible man who is unjust, who is corrupt,

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